A lot has been happening on Catchment Care initiatives around the country. We've been working with local communities, environmental groups and local councils on projects that are making a big difference when it comes protecting and enhancing New Zealand's waterways, wetlands and catchment zones. To keep you up-to-date with what's been going on, please see below.
Today Fonterra’s Catchment Care programme celebrates World Wetlands Day at Lake Ngaroto near Hamilton and Lake Waihola near Dunedin, New Zealand. The Day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar. Every year since 1997, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, ...
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The Catchment Care programme has had a successful two years working at more than 50 catchments across the country and improving over 1.5 million square metres of land to date.
For its third year Catchment Care has been has been refocused to ensure a greater impact on the ecological health of key national or regional catchments across New Zealand. ...
Two teams of volunteers marked International Volunteers Day yesterday by joining Fonterra’s Catchment Care to help enhance the native plant life in Waikato and Southland. Members of the public joined Fonterra staff at Lake Serpentine near Te Awamutu in Waikato and Waituna Awarua Wetlands near Invercargill in Southland. The passionate ...
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Sleeves were rolled up and spades were put to good use as almost 100 volunteers planted 2,700 native trees near Fonterra's Waitoa manufacturing site in August thanks to Catchment Care. Scott Nelson, Waitoa Site Operations Manager, said this planting day was part of their drive to help restore Waitoa Sites's surrounding environment. "This was ...
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From July 4th-8th the Fonterra Catchment Care Team and a group of Conservation Volunteers teamed up to commence native tree planting at Cue Haven, a 59 acre farm which was purchased by Thomas and Mahrukh Stazyk in 2003. This site overlooks the beautiful Kaipara Harbour and includes an established native forest and wetlands. In an effort to build up ...
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